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KEELEY TREATMENT

A STATEMENT OF inFORTdNT F/KT5 FOR THE
INFORn/ITION OF THE

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OK NEVADA.

Hon. H. M. Yerrington
Hon. Evan Williams

v Dr. S. L. Lee
Dr. J. W. Fox
Mr. T. R. Hofer

• Mr. Geo. C. Thaxter
Mr. Saml. P. Davis
Mr. J. X Jones
Mr. \V. L. Taylor
Mr. E. J. fj>arkinson

/•Mr. C. A.-Witherill
Mr. Gilbert Briggs
Mr. F. W. Day
Mr'.: H. B. Miilard
Mr. Thos. Millard
Mr. Robt. H. Grimmon
Mr. W M. Wilford
Mr. Phillip Krall
Mr. Chas. T. Cutts
Mr. Peter H. Gordon
Mr. Wm. Anderson
Mr. Jno. G. Fox
Mr. E. Aube
Mr. D. C. Simpson
Mr. Henry Madison
Mr. Samuel J. Taylor
Dr. G. E. Sussdorff
Mr. James Raycraft

Mr Jno. B. Vieria

Mr. E. B. Zabriskie

Mr. John p. Sweeney

Mr. \V. C. Noteware

Mr. Harry E. Martin

Mr. Chas. A. Hofer

Messrs. Bell, Edwards & Co.

Messrs. Stein Bros.

Messrs. Cagwin & Noteware

Mrs Dora Williams

Mrs. Mabel E. Bliss

Mrs. Geo. T. Davis

Mrs. E. S. Cowan

Mrs. C. H. Davis

Mrs. Martha Mackey

M*rs. Fred Turner

Mrs. G. E. So'ssdorff

Mrs. W7. C. Watson

Miss Jennie Hatfibleton

Miss Florence Spurg<

Miss Jennie Davis

Mr. A. W. Havens

Mr. Lamartine Osborn

Mr. John D. Langhorn, Jr.

Mr J. J. Evans

Mr. Frank Ashton

Mr. James Wheeland

Mr. W. C. Watson

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President and Medical Director,
CARSON CITY, - - NEV.

W. C. \VATSON,

Secretary and Treasurer ,

Room No. 5 (Third Floor), Mills Building,
SAN RKA1SLCISCO, CAL.

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INSTITUTE *

OF NEVADA.

The Keeley Institute at Carson City, Nevada, is the only
authorized branch of the \vorld-r.enowned Keeley Institute of
Dwight, Illinois, in this State. It possesses the sole and exclusive
right to administer and sell the -Double Chloride of Gold Reme-
dies, discovered and .prepared only by Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, for
the cure of the.lipuor, opium and tobacco habits, and neurasthenia.
By- means of these remedies and this system more than two
hundred thousand people have been permanently cured.

It will, therefore., be seen that no others in this State can give
the Keeley cure, and we call attention to the following " Note of
Warning," published by The Leslie E. Keeley Co. of Dwight ;
that the public may be on its guard, and. not be deceived by
unscrupulous and irresponsible persons who proclaim that they
give and administer the Double Chloride of Gold Remedies the
same, as Dr. Keeley 's:

"THE KEELEY INSTITUTE."
(Thirteen Years of Established Merit).

NOTE OF WARNING.
To the Public :

As a matter of justice to ourselves and to the reputation of
Dr. Leslie E. Keeley's Double Chloride of Gold Remedies for the
cure of the liquor, opium, morphine and tobacco diseases, and
neurasthenia, we warn the public that these remedies are used by
no institution -or sanitarium in the United States, except those
established by our company under the uniform name of "THE
KEELEY INSTITUTE."

All others claiming to use Dr. Keeley's remedies or formula:
are frauds and impostors.

The Keeley Institutes, established in various parts of the
United States, now number one hundred and ten, with five in
Europe, where the Keeley treatment is administered, and the
Keeley remedies sold. We, however, caution all to examine well
and know that they are dealing with GENUINE REPRESENTATIVES,
authorized by us, before taking treatment or purchasing remedies.

The misleading establishments use the name of " Bi-Chloride
of Gold," or similar titles. The newspapers often fail to dis-
criminate sufficiently to know that they are imitators. This is a
matter of public welfare, and hence this warning.

Respectfully yours,

THE LESLIE E. KEELEY Co.
May /, /c?pj — D wight > III.

S* L L *E, Successor to?

DR.IflRHMBHHHFF, who conducts the treatment at this insti-
tute, has successfully treated more than one thousand persons, and
is a man of large and varied experience in his profession.

No patient is accepted for treatment for a less period than
three weeks. In the liquor disease, this period is often sufficient,
though the majority need four weeks.

In the opium (or morphine) and cocaine diseases four weeks is
the shortest time. A longer period often becomes necessary,
depending upon the amount and length of time the drug has
been used.

The worst cases of the tobacco habit can usually be cured in
two weeks by institute treatment.

The time required for the cure of neurasthenia (or nerve
exhaustion) depends upon several special conditions, which cannot
be calculated until the patient has been under treatment for
several days.

In simple cases, however, of neurasthenia and the tobacco
habit we recommend the home treatment.

All information regarding times of treatment and other matters
not already given in these pages, will be cheerfully furnished on
application.

Medical examinations at institute of applicants for treatment,
free of charge.

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Carson City.

Carson City, the capital of Nevada, is a typical mountain town
of 4000 inhabitants, located near the base of the Sierra Nevada
mountains. Its climate is as nearly perfect as can be found on
the American continent. From February to December the max-
imum and minimum indications by the thermometer are 60° to
85°. Invigorating breezes from the snow-capped mountains in
the immediate West keep the atmosphere pure and exhilarating.
The nights are always sufficiently cool to sleep in perfect comfort
under bed-clothing and one rises in the morning as refreshed and
exuberant in spirit as the birds of Spring-time. Every night is a
peaceful, restful vacation. The town has a copious supply of the
best and purest water in the world which is piped direct from
springs high in the mountains. Its streets are almost level and
ornamented with beautiful shade trees that form an Alameda in
every direction. The Capital grounds consist of four acres, form-
ing a park of rare beauty.

The State Library contains some 20,000 carefully selected
volumes, and all of the newspapers of the State as well as the
principal papers of California and periodicals of the United States
are kept on file. Every one has the privileges of the library.

The Federal Building is an imposing new brick structure of
four stories, costing $150,000, and contains an elegant post office,
unsurpassed in either architectural design or completeness of
equipment by any other on the Pacific Coast.

Visitors who are numismatically inclined can gratify their
curiosity by visiting the thorughly equipped United States Mint.

The pre-historic footprints, which have attracted the general
attention of scientists and excited great interest at the World's
Fair, where some of them are exhibited, may be seen and ex-
amined at the State Prison, a mile east of town. They are
remarkably distinct and are found under stone stratifications
twenty feet in thickness.

Shaw's Hot Springs are situated a mile north of town and are
reached by free carriages running every hour. These springs
possess wonderful curative properties and are considered to be
amongst the most valuable in the world. There are two swim-
ming baths, each thirty by sixty feet in dimension and with a
graded depth of from four and a half to six feet. All kinds of
baths may be had and any degree of natural heat obtained. The
charges are very reasonable and the management is polite and
accommodating.

The flume yards, less than a mile south, are well worth visiting.
They constitute the terminus of water transportation and the
commencement of rail service for the wood, lumber and timber
supplies of the Comstock mines as well as those of Esmeralda and
the southern country. Over $40,000,000 worth of forest products
have been transported through these flumes and yards to the
Comstock mines alone.

Many other attractions are to be found in the immediate
vicinity which space forbids describing but which the visitor will
find to be of interest as well as instructive.

The clear mountain air will be found an excellent tonic in
bracing up the nervous system and a valuable adjunct in assisting
the recovery of persons under treatment. For this reason Carson
has been selected and we believe possesses more natural advant-
ages in restoring health than are to be found at any other institute
in the United States.

The Class Who Take The Cure.

Drunkards Who Fondly Imagine They are Keeping It to Themselves.

It is supposed by those who are unacquainted with the class of
people taking the "Keeley Cure," that they are generally persons
of low character, and disreputable habits, in addition to their
drunkenness. This is a mistake.

Investigation will prove that a large majority are persons who
possess high qualities naturally, both of the mind and heart. Take
a class of 50 patients, from this or any other Keeley Institute,
and compare them with any 50 men you can find upon the best
streets of any city, and they will compare favorably. All walks of
life are represented here, but principally those who are educated
and intelligent people.

It is very often the case, with those who contemplate taking
the treatment, that they hesitate to begin, fearing that it will be
generally known that they are doing so, which will bring discredit
and lower them in the estimation of their friends and the public.
This feeling of sensativeness should be overcome — since it is a
false one. Intelligent, thinking people now understand that
drunkenness is a disease, and as such should be treated by specific
medication, and is not regarded as a vice to be overcome by will
power or moral suasion.

It is a remarkable fact that drinking men believe that but few,
if any persons, know that they are drunkards. They deceive
themselves in this particular, and think they deceive others also,

but the truth is, that no man has ever been able, or ever will be
able, to conceal this fact from his friends or even acquaintances.

It is certainly more manly and commendable to determine to
shake off the shackles of drunkenness, by taking a cure for the
disease, than to continue a slave to its degrading influence. A
few days after beginning treatment, the change for the better in
his whole condition, physical, mental and moral, is so pronounced,
that his appreciation will find expression, and in his happiness he
will want everyone to know of it, and all his friends to take the
treatment. Instead of lowering him, it will elevate him in the
esteem of those whose good will is worth having; and when his
cure is completed and he returns to his home, he will find the
right hand of fellowship cordially extended him, and his family
and friends will have a trust in him, and confidence in his future,
which will enable him speedily to regain his proper place in soci-
ety, and compel the respect and esteem of his fellow-men.

The question is sometimes asked: "Is it dangerous to take the
treatment?" "Will it injure the functions of the brain, or general
health?"

No, it is not dangerous or injurious. A child, under certain
instructions could take a barrel full of it without injurious conse-
quences. The effect of the treatment, is to accomplish a complete
renovation, and restore the functions of the body to their normal
condition. It puts a man back to the same condition he was in
before he ever tasted liquor; and in many instances, in a better
state of health.

Before accepting a patient for the treatment, a careful physical
examination is made to see if any conditions are present contra-
indicating the treatment; such as fatty degeneration of the heart;
advanced state of consumption ; advanced Brights disease, etc.
In advanced stages of such diseases, it would be unwise to with-
draw the stimulant necessary to prolong life. All drinking men
have some irregular action of the heart. This is due to alcoholic
poisoning, and not to organic diseases. In a few days after taking
treatment such symptons disappear never to return. As before
stated, the treatment effects a complete renovation.

The bloated, expressionless face; bleary bloodshot eyes ; languid,
unsteady walk and carriage is changed. He looks indeed as
though he had been made over again. His eyes are bright and
clear; his face has the appearance of health, and his whole de-
meanor shows the happy change that has taken place not only
of the body but of his moral nature as well.

It is believed by many that if a man drinks liquor, after taking
the cure, it would kill him. The truth of the matter is this.
After being cured, the system is in the condition it was before

alcohol was used. A man would have to accustom his system,
gradually, to the toleration of liquor, and again the disease would
have to be established. Now, if a cured man should begin drink-
ing at once, the amount of liquor he had been using just before he
took treatment, his system would not tolerate it, and it would act,
in all probability, as an active poison ; just as the same quantity
of liquor would act upon a person who had never taken any at all.
A man cannot begin drinking the same amount, after being
cured, that he used before, without danger. There never need be
any fear that alcoholic stimulants, given medicinally, in sickness,
etc., will be dangerous. But as stated, liquor should be avoided
under all circumstances, if possible, for the reason that the liquor
disease may insidiously become established again.

A Concise Keeley Catechism.

So many articles have appeared touching the Keeley Cure,
that the following article has been prepared to answer the numer-
ous questions that arise, and upon which there seems to be still
some doubt and ignorance:

Is this cure approved by any high authority?

Yes, the highest; for the Keeley Treatment for the Liquor,
Opium and Tobacco Habits has received the endorsement of the
United States Government, and will now be used in all its State
and Military Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and Sailors.
This recent contract ends all discussion whether the cure is of
practical value. It is to be used by the Government in twenty-one
States, and in seven National Homes.

Is it a delusion, or mental science, or faith- cure or hypnotism?

It is a positive and radical medical treatment. It consists of a
hypodermic injection into the arm four times a day, and the recep-
tion into the stomach, at frequent intervals, of a tonic especially
prepared for the purpose. Warm baths and nutritious food are
insisted upon. There is no more secrecy or mystery connected
with the treatment than in the practice of any regular physician.

The injection causes about as much pain as the prick of a needle.
Sometimes there is a lack of appetite following, sometimes
a little nausea, and generally a disposition to be quiet, with good
sleep and plenty of it.

The effects of the treatment are generally noticed at once. The
patient desires less and less drink, his system craves and will
retain nutritious food, and in two or three days liquors placed be-
fore him will not be touched.

In most cases the work is done in three weeks. After the first
week the patient is a new man; he is then tonned up and fitted to
resist temptation.

It puts him back where he was; he is as if he never had been a
drinker; it takes away the love of drink. Liquor has no attraction.
It stands in the same relation to him as any other nauseous drug.
If a man will drink he must begin anew. Very few will do this,
knowing what they have been through. Statistics kept for eight
years show about 95 per cent, of permanent cures.

As a rule, a man will not be faithful with himself in any home
treatment. The Keeley Cure is more than to take medicine into
the stomach. Regularity and freedom from old associations are
necessary. The patient is with those who, like himself, are bent
upon one end; the patients inspire one another. There is a
happy and cordial enthusiasm in all, over a friend's recovery.

Compared with the happy results it costs very little . A single
debauch costs more than an entire cure. Thirty-five dollars a
week is the charge , which includes treatment and medicines. Board
is extra, and is graded to the wish and purse of the patient.

Names are never mentioned. The whole affair, both in corres-
pondence and in everything connected with the treatment, is a mat-
ter of delicate confidence. Patients are protected and not exposed.

Let the patient come sober, if possible, but should he come
suffering from a debauch he will at once be attended to and helped
toward a speedy cure.

There are no bolts or bars. Kindly care is always given, and
he will be protected during his stay till he goes out a redeemed
man.

Alcoholism and Opiumism are Diseases.

No greater change of thought has been witnessed in modern
times than in relation to the victims of narcotics. Fifty years ago
the excessive use of narcotics was almost universally regarded as a
vice, the baneful effects of which ought to be severely punished as
a crime. Severity of punishment was thought to be necessary for
the reform of the victims and for the vindication of the rights of
the community. So deeply rooted was this conviction in the pub-
lic mind that ministers and churches had nothing but unsparing
denunciations and rigid exclusions to deal out to the offenders.
The victims of alcohol and opium were regarded as the scum and
offscouring of all things, fit only to be kicked into the gutter, or
incarcerated in some dreary dungeon, and notwithstanding the
fact that medical science has established the truth that alcoholism

and opiumism are diseases, which must be dealt with as such,
and yet there is a great majority of Christian people who have given
so little attention to the scientific facts that they still live and move,
and have their being in a dream of ignorance ; they fondly cherish
the old delusion, and their acts are in harmony with their cruel,
vindictive thoughts. We ask the candid attention of our readers
to what are now the undisputed facts of science in relation to the
victims of alcohol and opium. The fact that alcoholism is a
disease is the foundation stone upon which the Keeley Institute
is built. Dr. Leslie Keeley was one of the earliest advocates of
this fundamental truth. So firmly convinced was he of the truth
of this postulate that he gave more than twenty years of his val-
uable life in investigations and researches for a remedy for this
fell disease. His patience and devotion were at last crowned with
success in the discovery of that invaluable specific, the Double
Chloride of Gold, which bears his name. To-day the truth is gen-
erally recognized by leading physicians and by eminent men, that
alcoholism is a disease which needs scientific treatment, but 30
years ago such an idea met with the most violent antagonism,
especially from ministers of the Gospel, because it seemed to be
opposed to the current code or morality. The great change of
opinion is doubtless, in great measure, due to the intelligent and
persistent advocacy of this truth by Dr. L. E. Keeley. To him,
therefore, belongs the honor of preparing the way for the rational
treatment of the disease, as well as that of providing an infallible
remedy. The world is doubly indebted to this great discoverer,
and now that his system of cure has been in operation for more
than fourteen years, and a great army of more than 200,000 per-
sons have been cured of these narcotic diseases; the most terrible
that afflict humanity; his statements are most certainly entitled to
the candid, earnest consideration of every thoughtful, intelligent
and Christian mind.

Dr. Keeley Tells the History and Effect of His Remedy.

In addressing the Press Club Association, of Chicago, Dr.
Keeley spoke as follows:

Ladies and Gentlemen : I am here to-night by invitation of
the Press Club of Chicago to speak of my remedy for the liquor
habit, and discuss the subject, "Is Drunkenness a Disease?"
Unfortunately for you, perhaps, who will listen to me, I have never
had occasion to address an audience before, in consequence of
which, if I fall short of your expectations, I crave your forbear-
ance.

Thirty years ago the idea first occurred to me that inebriety
was a disease and should be rationally treated as other diseases.
You know that insanity within our own day has advanced in
pathology from the conception of demonical possession to that of
bodily disease. The remedy for insanity was formerly the court,
the jail, and even punishment by death. In fact, survivals of
these methods and cures and treatments of the insane yet exist
to some extent, though the law and moral sentiment are begin-
ning to recognize that insane people are not morally responsible.

I do not claim that society is yet ready to accept the conclu-
sion that confirmed inebriates are morally irresponsible, but
society is now obliged to accept the fact that confirmed inebriety
is a disease. The evidences of this fact comprise all the evidence
there is of the existence of any disease. There is poison as a
cause. There are symptons and signs of disease. These facts
have long been known, but there is now the additional evidence
which is confirmatory that the disease of inebriety is curable by
medicine.

The moral factor of inebriety has always stood in the way of
the recognition by the public that inebriety is a disease. The
alcoholized patient or culprit, or prisioner, is held responsible
morally because he buys the poison voluntarily, and takes it him-
self, which brings into the case the factor of vice, viewed from
the standpoint of law and morality. Setting aside this factor
there is no difference in general terms between drunkenness or
alcoholism and typhoid-fever or insanity, and, in fact, when we
continue the analysis of the features of likeness there is no differ-
ence.

The germ diseases, as typhoid-fever, consumption, scarlet-fever
and diphtheria are caused by germ poison, and it was formerly the
custom to call these diseases "providential" or visitations from
God, the reason being that the cause was unknown. Now, how-
ever, that the cause is known we learn that the public and indi-
viduals are as responsible morally for the existence of these
poisons as they are for the existence of alcohol. A man who
refuses to be vaccinated or refuses this protection to his family is
responsible if smallpox is the consequence. Communities which
neglect sanitation and have a death rate of ten or twenty above
the minimum rate per 1,000 are responsible for the consequent
sickness and death, An individual who uses water that he knows
or should know may be contaminated and gets typhoid-fever
therefrom is morally as responsible as the man who drinks alcohol
uutil he becomes a drunkard .

From these facts, then, I can see no difference in a general
sense between the diseases of inebriety and typhoid-fever and other

diseases. They are all, every one, caused by poisons which pro-
duce the disease, and individuals and communities are equally
responsible from the moral standpoint for all diseases that are
preventable.

Inebriety also bears the same relation to cure and prevention
that other diseases do. All diseases including inebriety, should
be prevented rather than cured, but this world while truly seeking
the art of preventing all diseases, has not yet reached the goal.
This being true, it follows that diseases which cannot be prevented
must be cured, if possible. The evidences of modern times that
are now in the hands of the optimist who seeks to prove that the
world grows better are the facts that people who can think now
treat the insane and the inebriates and the criminals, not so much
with the object of punishment as with the object of cure. Lunatic
asylums are now hospitals. Penitentaries are being taken away
from politicians and contractors, and converted into reformatory
colleges. As yet, however, the government knows but little about
the treatment of inebriates, and the public institutions which
receive the victims of alcoholic poison from the police courts are
still known as bridewells, jails and penitentaries. The reforma-
tion of inebriates, as you would call it from the moral standpoint,
is yet in the hands of private enterprise, and these reformatories
can date back only a few years.

Alcoholism as a Disease.

Synopsis of an Address to His Patients by Dr. Leslie E. Keeley.

Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, to whom is largely
due the credit of making known to an astonished world that a
cure exists for inebriety, gave in his paper about a year ago an
address of Dr. Leslie E. Keeley on the pathology of alcoholism,
which occupied four columns. In an editorial summary of the
address, Mr. Medill termed it a remarkable paper, and it is, for it
traces the subject in a technical manner through all its phases. In
his summary Mr. Medill wrote:

"The most radical point is that in regard to the heredity of
disease, which he contends protects people rather than destroys
them, because it builds up a protection against disease which may
amount to an immunity, and this is true of the hereditary drinker,
he being the so-called temperance drinker. "The "Christian"
American or European inheiits a tolerance to the poison of alco-
hol from "a line of poison-pestered ancestry," so that he is able
to consume without trouble a quantity that would make a drunk-

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ard of an Indian or Hottentot or a Hindoo. Immunity from the
action of poisons is only given by the action of poisons them-
selves. This may be obtained by inocculation, as small-pox, or
by long use, in which case it will become hereditary. The man
who can inhale sewer gas containing tubercle bacilli and escape
consumption is the one whose ancestors had so long been poisoned
by the phthisis microbe that they had acquired immunity from
its attacks. But if the man be no longer exposed to the infection,
and his children be exempt from it, their descendants will in time
begin to suffer from the disease. It is precisely so, Dr. Keeley
claims, with alcohol and the germs of consumption. If neither of
these two poisons were in the world the trouble of inebriety might
be avoided and the coercive teetotal advocate might find his long-
wished for millennium. But the fact remains that if prohibition
ever succeeds it will be after the banishment of the infections of
disease and their poisons and if we could prohibit disease infec-
tion the question of alcohol prohibition would take care of itself.

The diagnosis of consumption and chronic alcoholism as hered-
itary diseases is declared to be an error, though sanctioned by
boards of health and life insurance companies. They do not
know, or ignore, the relation of a poison to the tissue cells, the
latter varying by use to "a tolerance of the poison." It is this var-
iation which in either case is transmitted by heredity, and it fol-
lows from this that the 'inheritance is an immunity from the
poison and not a transmission of disease.' This action is upon
the nerve cell, not because of any special selectiveness as sup-
posed by some, but simply because the nerve is the most sensi-
tive of all the tissues to influence from without. The action of
alcohol upon it is to prevent its nutrition, reproduction and special
function. If this be done in too great excess the cell is destroyed
as an organism, if so gently that it may be borne the effect is
simply perversive. The changed organism transmits the variation
to its successors, just as the dental system of the animal world
would change if for a long time there were no grass for the cow
or no flesh for the carnivora to feed upon. But this variation does
not cause inebriety by heredity, though it may be difficult to say
how many generations are required to gain immunity from
alcohol.

"The same is true of the ptomaines of consumption, of which
only one person in seven dies, for the reason that all the rest have
acquired an immunity from its poison. Heredity has improved
species not by merely transmitting likeness, but by giving an in-
crement of variation with each succeeding generation, by which
the race becomes better able to live.

"Atavism, or the tendency to return to a former type, is an

important element of reform in cases of abuse of an organ or
function, and in a physiological sense this largely depends upon
the rapidity of action by the poison. It is in this relation to the
human organism that alcohol stands out as far less dangerous than
morphine . The variation of cells brought on by the use of the
latter is so slow that it is next to impossible for an opium-eater to
control his appetite for morphia, while the alcoholic poison acts so
rapidly that the atavistic recovery of the cells only requires a few
weeks' time, even without special treatment Chloroform and ether
are rapid in their action, and thus allow speedy recovery from
their attacks. On the other hand the ptomaines of disease (the
poison from the microbes) act slowly. Two or more weeks are
required in each of the acute diseases to establish a cell variation
sufficient to make them tolerate the poison, and the cells may hold
this variation for many years, during which the person enjoys immu-
nity from a return of the disease. This is true of small-pox,
typhus, typhoid, consumption, diphtheria, cholera, and the yel-
low and other fevers, all of which are caused by poisons manufact-
ured by microbes. All run their course till the cells have become
accustomed to their influence. Then if the organism has been
killed off it recovers, because when once it can resist the poison of
a given disease that disease must come to an end.

''The change produced in the nerve tissues by alcohol is gener-
ally but an isomeric one; that is, and identity of element? and atomic
proportions, the difference being only in the quantity combined
in the molecule. It does not cause a degenerative change of
tissue nor true imflammation, though it may have a prepossessing
influence in the etiology of some diseases. Hence there is nothing
in the way of a cure of alcoholism by following the course of
nature in bringing around the atavism of the cells after a debauch
This can best be done by gradual reduction of the supply, a sud-
den cutting off being not only cruel, but often dangerous. For
both that and the opium habit it may be said that when a man
can live without distress for a week in the absence of the stimulus
his recovery from the disease is assured."

In closing his paper of which the above is a condensation, Dr.
Keeley used this language:

"The scientific and humane method of treating an inebriate, no
matter what the poison, is to gradually reduce the 'drug' and bring
about the atavism of the cells by equal methods. In alcoholic
poisoning this can be done in a comparatively short time My
emulsion combines food principles with an alcoholic preparation
which supplies the needed nerve nourishment, and the drug
required to secure atavism of the nerve cells speedily and easily.
After one night's sleep and generally not over two doses of the

emulsion the patient will refuse liquor if offered him. He is now
ready for the cure and the remedy is at once administered and
continued for three weeks, when the patient is cured.

"I will say that in the discovery of my method I did not follow
empirical experiment alone. I investigated the question on the
lines of natural selection relating to pathology. As pathology
(disease) is caused by poisons I learned that cells acquire an im-
munity from poison by being poisoned. I learned this immunity
lasts very long in ptomaine poisoning but is short in other poisons
— mineral poisons and poisons like alcohol. I finally learned that
metals used as drugs (or certain metals), will obliterate the vesti-
ges of variation, or whatever changes there may be in nerve cells,
after alcohol and other poisons.

"Continued drinking or alcoholic poisoning makes the chronic
drunkard. A cessation of drinking and recurrence on provocation
and at periodical intervals makes a periodical drunkard, so called.
In one case the drunkard never recovers from the poisoning. His
tolerance to alcohol becomes very great and some of these inebri-
ates drink surprising quantities of alcohol. I find these patients
as easily cured as the periodical drinkers.

" The periodical inebriate has his 'spells' (or sprees) and always
reforms between spells. When he reforms he and his friends de-
clare he will never take another drink. He learns that it is the
first drink that ruins him, and his friends learn it also. This ine-
briate signs pledges, joins the church, goes to the 'home,' takes
medicine, 'turns over a new leaf,' and 'swears off.' He takes ma-
terial and spiritual nostrums of all or any kinds which are offered.
He prays for strength and guidance, but his next spree comes
around on time or a little earlier.

" Now, we know that no phenomenon ever occurs in this world,
either in the mental or physical world, that is not the resultant of
opposing forces. There is no volition except from two thoughts
or impulses. There is no thought that is not founded likewise.
There is no action of what is called function unless there are two
forces behind it. There is no disease that is not a resultant of a
poison resisted by physiology.

" But all the force has rythm. Thought is rythmical. The
mind obeys the same law. If a man has a habit sometimes the
man conquers, but sometimes the habit has the pole. When a
periodical drunkard poisons his nerve centers he soon drowns out
feeling, conscience, sensation, emotion, will and thought. The
cells are staggered and paralyzed. The more violent the onslaught
the more violent the resistance and the greater the reaction and
also the greater the variation. In a few days the inebriate's
stomach will not bear food. He gives out generally, and as his

alcohol fails to intoxicate and his stomach fails to retain the drug,
he begins to think, and remorse gets the start, and after a spell of
agony, more or less severe, the next reformation follows.

" The moral conduct and life of this man are now the index of
his will resisted by his diseased nerve cells. After a debauch his
will is stronger. In time he loses his resistance by some machin-
ation or influence, and the debauch is repeated. This class of
cases is as easily curable as the other. The cure restores the in-
tegrity of the nerve cells. There is no longer the periodical de-
bauch, the rythm is broken up."

The Chicago Tribune, ever faithful to the Keeley cure after its
thorough iuvestigations and tests, of March 26, 1892, has this to
say:

" During the year and one-half since the Tribune first called
attention to Dr. Leslie E. Keeley's method of curing the disease
of inebriety, a remarkable change has taken place in public opin-
ion on this subject. Many thousands of men have been cured,
and while some have returned to the gutter the great majority
have become living evidences of the truth of Dr. Keeley's disease
theory, and have fully justified the Tribune in giving up so much
space to this effort for practical temperance. The movement has
undoubtedly resulted in the large pecuniary success of Dr. Keeley
and his associates, but with this the public has very little to do.
When Dr. Keeley's theories were first made public in the columns
of this paper they were subjected to bitter criticism on the part
of the great majority of the medical profession. Recent letters
furnished to the Tribune show that now the leading membes of
the profession are becoming converts to the disease theory of in-
ebriety."

The Tribune then gives letters from Dr. J. K. Bauduy, LL.D.,
professor of psychological medicines and diseases of the nervous
system, of the University of Missouri ; Dr. S. K. Crawford, late
professor of surgical anatomy in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Chicago; Dr. Oscar C. De Wolf, Commissioner of
Health, Chicago, and member of the British association for the
advancement of science, and Dr. Romine S. Curtiss, surgeon of
the Illinois Steel Company and surgeon in charge of St. Joseph's
Hospital, Joliet, Illinois. Each is an unqualified endorsement,
based on many years' acquaintance with Dr. Keeley, and his
specialties, and by men who have no interest in him or his treat-
ment.

The valuable testimonies of these distinguished physicians can
be had, printed lin eltenso' in separate pamphlet on application at
the Keeley Institute, Carson City, Nev. — Keeley Current Literature.

15
G. E, Sussdorff, M. D.

Physician-in-Chief at the Institute, late of Los Gatos, but no\v
of Carson City, Nevada, in a very valuable lecture given to the
Bi-Chloride of Gold Club, Los Gatos, March 3, 1892, gives the
following lucid explanation of the fact that Alcoholism is a Dis-
ease :
Members of the Bi-Chloride of Gold Club of Los Gatos, Ladies

and Gentlemen :

In response to your invitation to address you to-night I have
selected a subject which I know is of paramount importance to
you personally and of the deepest interest to the public at large.
I mean the Keeley Bi-Chloride of Gold treatment for the cure of
drunkenness.

y; is a work which I have entered into with enthusiasm and one
which affords me not only a delightful study, but unbounded sat-
isfaction.

I will confine myself to-night to a consideration of one part of
the subject only — alcoholism, or the disease of drunkenness, its
treatment and cure — leaving that of the opium and kindred affec-
tions for another occasion.

What is alcoholism, or drunkenness ? Is it a disease or is it a
vice ?

There can be no greater authority upon this point than Dr.
Keeley himself, who says :

''Alcoholism, viewed from a physiological side, is a disease —
viewed from its social side it is generally esteemed a vice. In-
sanity was once believed to be a vice. Those unfortunate crea-
tures afflicted with insanity were supposed to be possessed of a
demon and were thus punished by divine vengeance, when they
were simply suffering from a disease whose seat was in the brain,
the centre of the nervous system."

Students of the physiology and pathology of the brain and
nervous system have demonstrated scientifically to the world that
insanity is a result of a diseased condition of the brain, that it is
itself a disease. In the same way and by a like process of study,
alcoholism has been demonstrated to be a disease situated in the
brain and nervous system generally.

Post mortem examinations do not reveal the conditions of in-
herited insanity in the brain, neither can those of inherited ^alco-
holism be demonstrated, but when drunkenness is once established
the diseased conditions are always the same and are easily recog-
nized.

It is as much a disease as typhoid fever, small-pox, paralysis or
insanity.

I will not touch upon the subject of inherited alcoholic disease.
Its consideration is too complex to be made intelligible in the
limits of the short time at my disposal. It would require hours
for its elucidation. I will, therefore, speak only of acquired alco-
holism, or that form of drunkenness which is established primarily
by the poisonous use of spirituous liquors.

The acquired or developed disease is readily recognized by the
presence in the tissues of the brain of certain pathological condi-
tions which are as distinctive as the pathology of any other dis-
ease. The grey matter of the brain and its covering, the men-
inges are congested, that is, too full of blood. There is in the
ventricles and arachnoidal cavity an effusion of serum. In cases
of long standing the congestion has become chronic inflammation
with thickening of the meninges, engorgement of blood-vessels
and abnormal products, such as serum, sero-pus and even pu§ it-
self. The spinal cord is also affected, more or less, in the same
manner. The nerve filaments radiating from the brain and spinal
cord are also diseased, while the sympathetic or ganglion ic nerve
centers come in for their share of injury.

How does liquor or alcohol bring about this pathognomic change
in the tissues and establish a disease ? This process has been
carefully studied, but it must suffice at this time only to roughly
outline it. The word alcohol is used instead of the words whisky
and liquor, because alcohol is the agent present in all the fluids
used for stimulants. The properties of alcohol are to produce heat
in the human body. It is, in certain amounts, consumed by vital
processes and converted into heat. In this way it gives warmth
to the body by causing quick changes in the various tissues of the
body. In certain limited amounts alcohol is consumed readily
and with benefit. A few ounces only, however, answer this pur-
pose. In larger amounts alcohol enters the circulation unchanged.
It is too great in amount and cannot be burnt up. It circulates
in the blood as pure unchanged alcohol, and is deposited in and
upon all the various tissues composing the animal economy. In
time the whole system becomes literally saturated with it and dis-
ease is then established in its most horrible form.

How does the presence of alcohol in the tissues cause disease ?

In this way — It has a preference for nerve tissue, acting upon
it more energetically than others. An isomeric change takes
place and coagulation or hardening of this structure ensues.

When this has occurred the function of the nervous system is
impaired and vitiated in direct ratio to the injury received.

That alcohol has the power to coagulate albumen can easily be
illustrated in a simple way by any one who chooses to try the ex-
periment.

Take the white of an egg, which is pure albumen, and put it
into a vessel containing eight or ten ounces of alcohol. A change
will soon take place in the white of the egg, like that which oc-
curs when heat is applied, as in boiling water, or applied other-
wise in cooking. It is simply hardened, or in other words coag-
ulated. It has gone through what is called an isomeric change.

A large proportion of brain matter and of other nerve tissue is
albumenous.

It will, therefore, readily be seen how alcohol in its pure state
acts upon the nerves and changes their structure by a process of
hardening.

When this has occurred, these parts are so changed anatomic-
ally and physiologically, that their function is greatly impaired and
perverted. So much so is the case that now the system requires
a constant supply of alcohol as a stimulant, which has become
necessary to urge the vital forces to go on with their work. It has
become a necessity, and the economy imperiously demands the
daily supply and in increasing quantity.

The system has now become absolutely dependent for support
upon the stimulant.

The fire is burning furiously and fuel must be added to the
flames.

This is indeed a most unnatural state, a most abnormal condi-
tion— a terrible disease.

This diseased state is the ultimate result in all who use this
stimulant in poisonous quantities. .

There are two kinds of drunkards — one who drinks daily and
one who drinks periodically. Both are traveling the same road
from the first, but under different circumstances. The one goes
along at a regular pace, the other travels by short, but very quick
stages, with an interval to take rest. Soon, however, he finds his
periods of rest grow shorter, and before long there are no inter-
vals at all, but he is furiously speeding along and must soon reach
the end.

The class who have periodical fits of drinking are the more dif-
ficult to treat than at first thought would seem likely.

In this class there, is generally found an antecedent history of
hereditary disease, which taint breaks forth in explosions at inter-
vals. It is closely allied to insanity. There is a sort of rythm in
their periodicity. If the period of their return could be calculated
with certainty, it would not be hard to avert them, still, while
there is some difficulty and more watchfulness required, this class,
like the class of steady and continuous drinkers, can have the dis-
ease eradicated. In other words, no matter how this condition is

induced in the beginning, whether by social influences or by in-
herited tendency, the result is the same in all particulars.

In this pathological state of the nervous system, its function is
so much perverted that only false sensations are received and
transmitted by the brain.

The intelligence and reason, as well as the emotions, are unbal-
anced and perturbed, giving rise to erroneous and illogical ideas,
disordered actions, and to that general mental condition, which
renders a man unfit to discharge his duties to his God, his neigh-
bor and himself. The drunkard, consequently, is not a responsi-
ble being, either to society or himself. He is a sick man, morally
and physically. He is unable to keep himself in proper relation-
ship to his environments.

This being a fact — all this being plainly true — how shall this
evil be met ? How can it be overcome ? Shall it continue to be
regarded as a social vice, or acknowledged to be a terrible disease
to be treated by the physician as other diseases are ? Yes, that
is the better and only way. " It is just as rational," says Dr.
Keeley, " from a medical standpoint to treat drunkenness by ex-
postulation, pledge-signing, reproaches and legislation, as it for-
merly was to treat insanity by incantations, the exhibition of
saint's bones, or the laying on of the hands."

The tears, the agony, the starvation and social misery of the
drunkard's family ; the insanity, mental imbecility and criminality
of his progeny — the overflowing penetentiaries, jails and poor-
houses, and the millions of unmarked and unhonored drunkard's
graves, are powerless now, and always have been powerless, to
cure this disease of drunkenness."

This cause and effect of drunkeness being established, what is
the remedy for this terrible evil ?

The world has been asking this question for hundreds of years'
It has been the subject of study of philosophers, statesmen,
churchmen, physicians and scientists the world over.

For the last few decades this evil has seemed to gain new
strength, it has been growing more rapidly, until now its victims
are so numerous that it is appalling to contemplate. The past
twenty years have been noted for self indulgence of every kind,
Every means has been sought that would pander to the senses.

Pleasure, or the inordinate gratification of the senses has been
to the unthinking multitude the only thing desirable in life.
What wonder then that intoxicating poisons should be largely re-
sorted to in order to obtain this end. The time is coming soon
when a halt will be called, and society will change from its frivol-
ity to a more sensible and rational mode of living. The influences
for for better ways of living are already being felt. Among these

influences a wonderful and marvelous means has come for destroy-
ing one of the greatest of these evils.

The close of the nineteenth century is marked by a great dis-
covery, and the hand of Almighty God should be recognized in
this.

For twenty-five years a man, a physician, in a small Illinois
town, toiled patiently and searched unremittingly for a remedy for
the curse of drunkenness. At last his efforts were crowned with
success, and an absolute potent and infailible cure has been given
to the world in the remedy which bears his name, " The Leslie E.
Keeley Bi-Chloride of Gold Remedy."

This remedy is specific in its effects.

It acts immediately as an alterative and resolvent upon the
brain, spinal chord and sympathetic nerve centers, and as if by
magic. Selecting these tissues by some inherent power as afield
for its operations, it shows itself to be the natural antidote for al-
coholic poison.

When given by the stomach it is absorbed rapidly — it is ab-
sorbed instantly by the capillaries of the skin, when given hypo-
dermically, and is carried into the general circulation. Each blood
corpuscle cheerfully freights itself with the golden treasure, and
deposits it upon and around the hardened tissues of the nerves.
Then it causes absorption, sucks up the diseased tissues, and again
carries it around to those organs whose functions it is to eliminate
and throw it off from the system as waste and worthless ma-
terial.

While it is so actively, so industriously effecting the work, it
causes no shock to the system, no pain, no distress. It carries
with it rather a soothing influence, and soon changes feeling and
sensati-n to one of contentment and peace.

To me this is a most wonderful thing in medicine, that there
should be found an agent so powerful for good and yet so gentle
and harmless in its operation. The therapeutics of this remedy
are founded upon some sublime law of nature, perhaps not now
understood, but fully appreciated.

Somewhere I have read these words, " The laws which have
their foundations laid deep in the Eternal Verities are not
shackles, but supports, to keep our feeble humanity from falling
again into Chaos." Truly it does seem that the law of the
Eternal Verities has been obeyed, and that our feeble humanity
has now a means of rescue from the Chaotic condition of drunk-
enness.

Is all this merely a delusion ? Can it be true ?

It is no delusion. It is all true, marvelously true. In evidence
of its truth thousands of men testify, not only by their words but

by their lives. Daily and hourly the throng of rescued men is
increasing.

This means of treatment will go on in its conquering career un-
til every man sick with the disease is reached and cured of his'
sickness.

What are the after effects of the treatment?

All the accumulated evidence goes to show that it effects a com-
plete renovation, a great physical, mental and moral change,

The psycological elements are in a healthy condition. The in-
telligence and emotions are again normal.

The disease of alcoholism causes a man to have a distorted
view of everything. There is an irritable, restless, unpleasant
way about him which is felt by every one but is difficult to de-
scribe. The common expression, " a complete wreck," tells the
story of his mental, moral and physical condition.

After being cured how changed is all this. They look as though
they had " been made over again." The careworn look is gone
and they again become in manner pleasant, agreeable gentlemen.
The after effect of the treatment is to make men of them again,
just as God intended them to be. After treatment, health, en-
ergy, courage and self-respect return. The affections bloom like
a rose. He sheds the sunshine of love and happiness about him
as he goes about his daily walks of life, and his family and friends
have a trust in him they never had before he was cured. 'The
old order changeth, giving place to new.'

" All over the Eastern part of our great country, in the com-
mercial centers of this republic, our graduates are more trusted
by business men than are the men who have never drank liquor
at all, confidence is so great in the permanency of their cure ."

The Rationale of the Keeley System.

The Physiological and philosophical principles upon which the
Keeley system is based can be best stated in Dr. Keeley 's own
words.

" Accepting the invitation of Dr. Talmage, given when that
eminent divine visited Dwight in April, Dr. Leslie E. Keeley ad-
dressed an audience of 12,000 people at the Tabernacle, Brook-
lyn, N. Y., on Sunday evening, May 15. Dr. Keeley was en
route to Europe, whence he journeyed to open Keeley institutes
in Great Britain. The speech he made in Brooklyn was a plain,
everyday talk, explanatory of the causes of inebriety and why
alcohol is a necessity to the inebriate after he has become such.
We have only space here to give the eminent physician's expla-

nation of how a cure is obtainable. The Doctor's language was
as follows :

" In this condition I have explained why alcohol is a necessity
• to the inebriate, but I wish to speak on and give a reason for the
fact that drunkenness is periodical or rythmetical. It is so that
in many inebriates the rhythm is so short that the intoxication ap-
pears to be continuous, but the regular rhythm is there the same
as in the periodical drunkard, The constant drunkard is partially
sober in the morning, as a rule, up to the ninth hour of the day.
The topers who drink constantly are usually sober until late in
the afternoon of each day, or until a late hour in the evening.
These men may drink during the forenoon of reform, but, as the
day goes on, the system demands the poison, and by night the
poor wretch is as full as the round moon with its fabled resem-
blance to the man who comes home to meet his family. But I
think the larger number of drunkards are the so-called 'periodi-
cals,' who have an interval of total abstinence from a few days to
even a year or more. These men always reform after a debauch
— a debauch which, despite their good resolutions, is sure to be
repeated sooner or later. Viewed from a social standpoint, the
reason for the lapse of good resolutions and the drunken spree
that follows is not always the same. Different causes seem to lead
to the debauch. Generally when the time comes the debauch
begins by social drinking ; sometimes some real or fancied illness
is the excuse. These men are told repeatedly by their friends
that they cannot take a drink without following it up until para-
lyzed ; but this is a difficult matter for the toper to believe. 'Why
can't I take a drink,' he will say, 'as well as Jones or Johnson?'
Yes, he may take a drink once or twice, determined that it will
be his last, but his effort is sure to result in failure and to end in a
spree. I think that the physiological and anatomical basis for the
extension of periodicity in drunkenness is easily found and un-
derstood. That drunkenness is periodical must be admitted. The
inebriates and their friends, as well as their enemies, all know this
fact. If they have a rhythm in the result, or in the phenomena
of the world — whether in physiological, mental or biological ef-
fects— the naturul influence will be that the forces which underlie
them must also be rythmetical. I have said that all things and
all phenomena are the products of opposing forces which are un-
equal. If all election forces were exactly equal, no public officer
would ever be elected. If gravity and the attraction of the moon
were equal on the waters of the ocean; there would be no tides.
If the sun's heat and the surface tempeaature of the earth were
equal, there would be no rain. If the volcanic forces in the earth
and the resistence of its crust had always been equal, there would

have been no ranges of mountains. If the poisons, the microbe
and the resistance of the tissue cells to poison were equal, there
would be no disease. If a man's physical or vital resistence to
the poison of alcohol were equal to the alcohol, the stomach would
hold, no man would get drunk. He could not. He would drink

his fill.

THE OPPOSING FORCES.

All physical force is rhythmetical. A bar of light is rhythmeti-
cal. A current of electricity is rhythmetical. The action of the
magnet also shows this variability. All running water in a natu-
ral or artificial stream will show rhythm in its speed or volumn.
No timepiece or electrical apparatus can run without this rhyth-
metical action. The reason is that all motion is the result of
forces acting in opposition to each other, and the opposition can-
not always be an equal quantity. But having an understanding
that all forces are rhythmetical, and that all things are the products
of opposing forces acting unequally, let us look at the disease and
see if the law holds good. You know that epidemics do not pre-
vail continuously. They occur periodically. You know that in a
fever the temperature is not always the same. If typhoid, the
morning temperature is 102 degrees, while the evening tempera-
ture may be 105 degrees. All pain is naturally rhythmetical. If
a toothache were a constant quantity, it would kill its victims .
People prevent epidemics by fighting their rhythmetical returns.
They combat disease by remedies which break up the secret
rhythms of chills or fever. The chronic inebriate acquires resist-
ance to alcohol by free drinking. His family, friends, will, and
tissue cells resist it. All these make such an impression on his
mind that he stops drinking for a while. But these resisting forces
lose their power in time, and then the clamor of the tissue cells
for alcohol is again predominant and he goes off on another spree.
From this standpoint a drunkard is made up of rhythmetical epi-
demics, all of which forces are driving him toward drinking. If
all of these forces could remain equal he would be naturally cured,
but unfortunately they remain unequal. My remedy breaks up
this rhythm. It puts the inebriate in an entirely new sphere, ex-
ternally and internally. It is very like and about as effectual as
giving a man who has the ague a quantity of quinine and a change
of climate. It breaks up the regular swing of the pendulum
which ticks against sobriety on the one extreme and natural de-
bauchery on the other. Society naturally looks at the drunkard
from different standpoints. From the scientific standpoint society
regards liquor as a poison. The larger number of crimes are the
work of men who are under the influence of liquor. The drunkard

becomes a social outcast in proportion as the sentiment against
drinking is developed in the public mind. The inebriate is held
to be morally responsible because he voluntarily buys the poison
and takes it himself, but in this view of the case society is respon-
sible for all the crimes that the drunkard commits and for the
disease of inebriety. Society is responsible for all diseases even
including insanity.

All diseases, including inebriety and insanity, could be pre-
vented. In my opinion drunkenness and the general consumption
of alcohol are due largely to imperfect laws. The time will come,
however, when, if a man gets typhoid fever, he will fix the respon-
sibility somewhere, and will sue corporations and communities for
damages. To-day the city must pay damages for a defective
sidewalk which breaks a man's leg, but the city may inocculate a
third of its population with typhoid-fever through a water supply
which is contaminated through public neglect, and no claim for
damages will be made. Alcohol is an instinctive remedy for sick-
ness. It has no equal among drugs as a heart stimulant. People
will have it. It is an antidote more or less to the air, water or germ
poison. Alcohol will not need to be prohibited after the germ
poisons are destroyed. When this time comes the people will stop
drinking alcohol. It will go out of fashion soon enough and will
be no longer sold in gilded saloons or found on polished side-
boards. The millineum will not reach this world until humanity
is emancipated from poisons. It makes no difference whether
the poison is that of a disease, microbe, or if it is a drug which
people consider a use as a remedy. We want no poisons of any
kind in the world. If the disease poisons are banished, the anti-
dotes which are equally poisonous will fall of themselves. I
believe in prevention rather than cure, if prevention can head off
the cure. But great reforms come slowly. The public considers
alcohol a remedy.

The public will have the remedy. When typhoid, consumption,
malaria and kindred diseases are banished from the world, the
average duration of human life will be longer than now by at least
twenty years, and preventable diseases including inebriety, will
not then be known. Therefore, banish all poisons that bring about
preventable disease and alcohol will die out of itself. The question
will be solved. — Keeley Current Literature, June 1892.

"How Long Does It Take?"

BY DOCTOR J. J. MOONEY.

" The time necessary to accomplish a complete and thorough
cure of the alcoholic disease is usually from three to four weeks.

In very rare instances the patient remains under treatment a fifth
week.

The question is frequently asked, " If Richard Roe can be cured
in three weeks, why can you not cure John Doe in the same length
of time? He (J. D.) did not drink nearly so long or so heavily
as Mr. Roe."

The above question is one of very great importance to those
now undergoing treatment as well as to prospective patients, for
it involves a consideration of something more than the time and
money spent by those who are advised to remain the additional
week, viz., that of a complete cure.

Now we all know that the physiological action of a drug will
not be made manifest in two individuals in precisely the same
length of time. In fact, a very great difference will be noticed in
some cases.

To explain this apparent irregular action of any particular drug
we must take into consideration various things, such as age, tem-
perament, condition of health, habit, idiosyncrasy, etc., etc. All
these have an influence on the action of a drug, both as regards
the time necessary for the production of the physiological effects
and the intensity and duration of the same. For instance, we
have seen patients in whom a small dose of chloral hydrate would
produce profound sleep in a comparatively short length of time.
Whilst others have required very large doses of the same drug in
order to procure any rest whatever, although there was no appar-
ent cause by which the difference required in dosage could be ex-
plained. Again, we may see cases of ordinary " sore throat " ex-
isting under precisely the same circumstances in two individuals.
To both patients the same medicine is administered, and what is
the result? One responds readily to the beneficial action of the
drug, and is well in a very short time, whereas, the other may re-
quire days to complete the cure, so slow has been his system in
responding.

Now, all these things were applicable to the Keeley treatment,
as well as to other forms of medicine, and, as a consequence, the
time required to produce the desired effect varies in different indi-
viduals. In almost every case, if not in all of them, the beneficial
action of the treatment is observed within the first twenty-four
hours. Some even so early as after having but one treatment
feel and show a decided improvement, whilst in others no improve-
ment is, evident until after from twelve to twenty-four hours. The
change after the first day is noticeable not only to the physician
and patient, but everybody remarks it. About the third or fourth
day the patient voluntarily abandons the use of liquor, after which
time the progress toward a cure becomes even more marked, and

it depends in a great measure upon the rapidity with which his
system responds, whether or no his cure will be accomplished
within the three weeks. He appears four times daily at the insti-
tute for hypodermic injection. The physician, who is always in-
structed at the parent house, and must necessarily understand
thoroughly the action of the Double Chloride of Gold Remedies,
notes carefully how the patient is progressing. He looks for cer-
tain effects, for the Keeley remedies produce positive results, and
questions with regard to subjective symptoms. At the end of
three weeks, provided he has received the full benefit of the cure,
he is graduated. As in the case of " sore throat," mentioned
above, he may not, however, have responded readily enough, so he
is advised to take another week's treatment. There are other rea-
sons why some should take a longer course of treatment than
others. One is that during the fourth week a special tonic treat-
ment is given with special reference to the nervous system. Some
men who have a delicate and sensitive nervous organization be-
come, from the long continued use of alcohol, broken down com-
pletely, and border on a condition of neurasthenia (nervous pros-
tration) when they commence taking treatment for alcoholism.
Now, though they be completely cured of the alcoholic disease
proper, at the completion of three weeks' treatment, the nervous
system may still be in such a condition that a week of special
tonic treatment becomes necessary.

There is one class, however, who should never think of taking
less than four weeks' treatment, for their condition requires it.
We refer to the periodical drunkard or dipsomaniacs. There ex-
ists a vast difference between a habitual and a periodical drunk-
ard. " It should be mentioned that periodical drunkenness is
more difficult to cure than habitual, and therefore great care and
caution is necessary," says Dr. Leslie E. Keeley in his "Treatise
on Drunkenness." Surely such words coming from the lips of
the great discoverer himself should be sufficient to convince any
periodical drunkard that a four weeks' course of treatment is none
too long to accomplish in his case a complete cure.

When entering an institute do so with your mind made up that
you will not only live up to the rules and regulations, but that you
will abide by whatever the physician tells you, for he must cer-
tainly be a better judge of your condition than you are. Submit
to his judgment as you would to your family physician in case of
sickness. Do not leave his protecting wing until he pronounces
you absolutely cured, and you will live to bless the day that you
entered his class at the Keeley Institute." — Golden News, Octo-
ber 10, 1892.

In some way the impression has gone abroad that when a per-
son goes through the treatment the constitution is enfeebled and
the seeds of death begin at once to grow. This is an idea which
was started and is kept alive only by jealous physicians, and is
wholly false.

Our readers need have no fear of any bad result. Now and
then a man dies who has been treated, but upon inquiry it will al-
ways be found that he was already far advanced in some disease
that could not be cured, and that was certain to produce death ere
long.

As a fact, figures show that when patients come from the treat-
ment they are stronger and better in every way than before." —
Dr. /. E. Mooney.

The idea that the Keeley Cure involves peril to life, is entirely
erroneous, but is fostered, not only by jealous members of the
medical profession, but also by certain sections of the press an-
tagonistic to the Keeley Cure. It is calculated by competent
men that, upon a moderate estimate, thirty million dollars annually
are now withdrawn from the liquor dealers by the men who have
been cured at the various Keeley Institutes; what wonder, then,
that papers devoted to the liquor trade should indulge in un-
limited, malicious misrepresentation as to the perils to life involved
in the cures. The great pecuniary inducement to a steady per-
sistence in this kind of romancing, which is designed to deceive
the unwary public is very forcibly presented by Monte Bennett
in his long and very able article on The Keeley Cure, published
in the Superior Daily Call, West Superior, April 9, 1892.

We subjoin the following extract :

WHERE MANY ATTACKS COME FROM.

"Aside from the enemies in his own profession Dr. Keeley 's
greatest foes are the liquor dealers. But in this instance the more
antagonistic they are the more he will prosper. It would not be
surprising to see a combine of liquor dealers who would put up
money to malign and break down his business and close up his
institute if that were possible. It is estimated in the bi-chloride
of gold club at Dwight, that not a patient who has taken the
Keeley treatment expended or squandered less than $300 yearly
in saloons, and in scores of cases from that sum up to $3,000 to
$5,000. To take this away from them is a vast drain upon the
financial support of the saloons. No wonder there were efforts
made to cripple the treatment by legislative interference in New
York, but this move was more than discounted by the adoption

of the treatment by the government for the soldiers' homes,
national and State.

Two hundred thousand men have now been cured of the drink
disease and turned away from courses of waste and profligacy,
and others are being reclaimed at the rate of 30,000 a year, and
next year the number throughout Christendom will exceed 50,000,
and possibly reach 100,000. Think of this vast army restored to
sobriety, usefulness and good citizenship ! The men will belong
to The Associated Keeley Bi-Chloride of Gold Clubs, which, to
say the least, will have nothing in common with the saloons or
the liquor traffic. It is the only successful and practical tem-
perance reform the world has ever seen. Those already reclaimed
at the low estimate of an expenditure of $300 each per year,
represent the sum of $60,000,000 taken from the saloons, but
twice or three times this sum would be nearer the true figure. A
fairer average would be $600 a year for most of the patients of
the class that visit Dwight or the branch institutes, and thus the
vast total of $120,000,000 a year is reached, with another $50,000,-
OOO to be added by those cured and reclaimed next year, and so
on almost ad libitum, and the whole vast sum restored to chan-
nels of legitimate business, of home and property getting, of
schooling, refinement and culture, while the physical and moral
benefits to the human race arising from the Keeley discovery is
inestimable.

The " whisky trust " is strong, but trust and faith in the Keeley
Cure is greater and a much better investment. King Alcohol is
mighty, but the gold antidote is mightier. Its influences now
girdle the earth. It is the great reform of the nineteenth century
— the new deliverance. It is of greater consequence than a war,
because it establishes a great principle by reclaiming instead of
slaughtering its adherents and volunteers, and it is of far more
importance than even our national election, because it is more
general and lasting in its results to mankind.

The press of the Pacific Coast as well as of the Eastern States,
has generally been characterized by the most fair and honorable
treatment of the Keeley Cure, and has given it the most unquali-
fied and unstinted endorsement. There are a few exceptions of
the baser sort.

On Sunday evening, May 15, 1892, Dr. Leslie E. Keeley ac-
cepted the invitation of Dr. Talmage to address his vast audience
of 12,000 people at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Dr. Keeley being
at that time en route to Europe.

" Prior to the address Dr. Talmage had announced that at its
close he desired to ask certain questions of Dr. L. E. Keeley to
clear up some doubts in the public mind, questions which had
been suggested by prominent physicians and citizens. At the
conclusion of the address he said :

" Doctor, are there any poisons in this cure — any atropine or
strychnine?"

Dr. Keeley — There is nothing deleterious in the cure. There
is nothing inimical to life or to health. I think it a physical im-
possibility for the cure to do harm in any way . A child might
drink a barrel of it under proper restrictions, and every spoonful
would do the child good instead of harm.

I know of nothing in the remedies that will injure in any way,
and I do not think that anyone has ever been the least disturbed
by taking the remedies, either mentally or physically."

NO ATROPHINE OR STRYCHNINE.

"The reply to Dr. Talmage 's first question, whether the Keeley
medicine contained either atropine or strychnine, was not 'direct
enough to suit some of the editors of the New York daily papers,
who accused the doctor, the day following, of evading a direct
reply. He noticed the comments, and when he arrived at White
Plains, N. Y., where he addressed the men under treatment at
the branch institute there, he took occasion, once for all, to make
a positive denial. He said there: UA lie has gone forth for the
purpose of breaking down my remedies and their use to the effect
that they contain atropine and strychnine, which are both inimi-
cal to mental and physical health. Now, I declare more emphati-
cally that there is neither atropine nor strychnine in my remedies,
and, further, I will say that if three reputable chemists, whose
honesty cannot be questioned, will meet and analyze my remedies
for either of these poisons and find them, making their affidavits
to that effect, I will make my formula known to the world." —
"Keeley Current Literature" No. 2, June, 1892.

So much has been said concerning the sad death of James G.
Fair, Jr., it having been claimed that he was killed by the Keeley
treatment, the following unequivocal and straightforward letter
from ex-Senator Fair will be reao! with interest:

SAN FRANCISCO, CAI,., July 25th, 1893.

Or. G. E. SussJorff, President of the Ke- ley Institute^ Carson City> Nevada. —
DEAR SIR: Replying to your letter of yesterday, I beg to say that after the
death of my son, James G. Fair, three prominent physicians of this city, at
my request, held an autopsy on his body. The result of that autopsy was to
show the young man died of fatty degeneration of the heart, and that Dr.
Keeley 's treatment of his case was in no way responsible for his death.

Yours truly,

JAMES G. FAIR.

An Interview With Ex-Senator Fair;

In an interview with ex-Senator Fair, that gentleman expressed
his unqualified approval of the system pursued at the Keeley
Institute, and warmly indorsed it as a tremendous power for good.
Referring to the death of his son James, the ex-Senator said:

" I fail to understand what motive could have prompted the
falsehood which made it appear that my son's death was caused
by the Keeley treatment. So far as concerns this treatment, it
was successful tn curing my son of the liquor habit, and for
several weeks after he left the institute he was in robust health.
We knew that he had a heart trouble, and had feared serious
consequences from that. But the Keeley treatment did not in
any degree aggravate that trouble, and it was not in any manner
responsible for his death, which was caused by fatty degeneration
of the heart, as was demonstrated at the autopsy, and nothing
else. My son Charles was also cured at the D wight Institute.
With him the liquor habit is certainly eradicated, and he is now
a man, with every sense and faculty perfect. Nor has he shown
since his cure, any unpleasant effects from the treatment, which
has saved and restored him to me."

"Then I may say," questioned the reporter, uthat you approve
the Keeley treatment and recommend it ? "

" You may," said Mr. Fair, " and you may also say that I fully
indorse it, and believe it to be one of the grandest discoveries of
our century. I believe it to be infallible in the cure of the
alcohol habit. Several other cases than those I have referred to
have come under my notice, and in no instance has a failure
attended this excellent system of treatment. — San Francisco
Daily Report, July 30, 1892.

Many Quacks Are on the Rostrum.

It must not be forgotten that there are a great number of pre~
tenders who claim to give the Keeley treatment. Among the
questions asked at the Brooklyn Tabernacle was the following:

Dr. Talmage — "How many initiative institutions are there that

you know of?"

Dr. Keeley " I believe there are now some two hundred am

seventy-seven. Of those two hundred and seventy-seven there
is not a solitary one which has originated a single thought. They
all imitate my methods. They all use my literature when they
want to write up their establishments, and then use even my
language."— Keeley Current Literature, June.

We are afraid to attempt to say how many there are on the
Pacific Coast, but they are springing up as thick as mushrooms,
and of course it is quite convenient to have their failures charged
home to a Keeley institute. This is the experience east of the
Rocky mountains, and it will most probably be found to be true
here also.

Keeley Medicine Harmless.

From the Standard , Wellington, Kansas.

" It is usual to allude to all cures for the liquor habit as the
" Keeley " cure. It is also customary when a person dies under
treatment to say that he died while undergoing the Keeley cure.
Now, there are a number of companies who advertise and try to
cure drunkenness. The Keeley Company claims that no one
has died while taking the Keeley cure in any one of their
numerous institutes."

The philosophic view is admirably presented by Dr. G. E.
Sussdorff in his lecture already quoted :

"Another point should be noticed. Every death that occurs
of a Keeley graduate is attributed to his treatment for drunk-
enness or the opium habit. The Keeley Institute cannot insure
a man so that he can never die. A certain percentage of men die
every year. I think in the case of men who drink it is larger than
in any other class. Out of every thousand at least thirty die
every year. The Keeley graduate goes home in better general
health than he has enjoyed for many years, but a certain percentage
of these die every year, of course, and are not exempt from paying
the last debt to nature. Many other assertions prejudicial to this
treatment have been made, one, for instance, that the treatment
is administered alike to all, without first making an examination
as to the presence of organic disease or other conditions contra-
dicting the treatment. This last assertion, I am sure, you all
know to be unjust and untrue.

Perhaps the only way — and the best way — is to attribute to the
liquor disease those attacks upon the Bi-Chloride of Gold treatment.
The influence of alcoholism is felt in every avenue of social life.
Men cannot think and reason fully when their mentality evolves
distorted conceptions of most things, especially when the appetite
for intoxicating fluids is discussed. They resent in every way the
idea that they are not able to control it, and the suggestion of the
Keeley cure is felt to be an indignity. So, through ignorance or

self-interest they use every frivolous pretext to discourage and
frighten men from undergoing a cure for drunkenness.

All this will right itself as the great work goes on. It will soon
silence all enemies."

The respectable portion of the Eastern press is almost unani-
mous on this question. Such testimonies as the following might
be published by the score :

BUT ONE RESULT FROM TAKING TREATMENT.

"There is circulated all over the country some mendacious
reports in regard to fatal results that follow the Keeley cure that
we desire to ventilate briefly for the benefit of the public. We
hear wherever we go that a man having taken the cure who starts
to drink again will most certainly die directly from the effects of
the cure on the whisky. Now we have it from the highest authority
that this is untrue, and is circulated by those who are using every
means to prevent men from getting out of the ditch. It is also
said that it will drive men insane. This, too, is false, and we say
and can prove that there has never been one harmful symptom
resulting from the cure in any one of the 200,000 who have taken
it. It is perfectly harmless to the system and on the contrary it
is beneficial, and builds up in almost every direction. Its enemies
are in effect keeping men rushing to the shambles, and God will
hold them accountable for the blood of their brothers. Men of
intelligence, in the face of facts and results, cannot condemn the
Keeley cure without assuming a fearful responsibility. Men of
intelligence, who want to throw off their awful burden, and can
go to Dwight, are committing deliberate suicide by staying away,
There can be but one result from a man taking this treatment,
and that is a cure. It is as sure as any acknowledged medical
fact of the day. Its enemies are fast disappearing, or are com-
pelled by facts to keep silence." — Editorial in New Brighton,
III., News.

Testimonies of Eminent Divines.

Dr. Talmage visited Dwight in April and gave one of his elo-
quent addresses to the students, who at that time numbered from
10,000 to 12,000.

ADDRESSING THE PATIENTS.

"Treatment Hall" was crowded at 5 o'clock, when Dr. Keeley
called the assemblage to order and said :

GENTLEMEN : We have to-day with us for a limited while Dr.
Talmage, of whom you all know. It would be idle to introduce

him, or to say anything about him. The world knows Dr.
Talmage. He to-day is one of the very few men of the world
who can arrest attention. Even his lightest word is heard in
forty-eight hours after speaking it, the world over. I need say
no more. [Applause].

In the course of his address Dr. Talmage gave the following
valuable testimony :

REDEEMED BY THE KEELEY CURE.

"I have now in my mind a young man who had broken his
father's heart, his mother's heart — as splendid a young fellow as
there is in this land to-day; fine cerebral development, fine educa-
tion. As lovely a mother as has any man in all the earth. He
was bolstered up and he fell, and put in inebriate asylums and he
fell, and everything tried with him possible. He became a con-
verted man and joined the church. Don't let anyone scoff and
say he was not a Christian. He was as much a Christian as any
one in this house, but this awful habit drew him down and down,
and there seemed to be no cure; and after a while I said: "Where
is So and So?" and they said: "He is trying the Keeley cure,"
and to make a long story short, he is redeemed and as fine a man
in business as there is in New York. The Keeley cure saved him ,
and nothing else under Heaven would. So I extol the grace of
God and at the same time extol the common-sensical, scientific,
earnest aid, experiment, effort, discovery! But tliere is no resisting
it — we cannot read it down, we cannot talk it down — it will become
triumphant and be recognized in all the land, and all the lands of
earth. It has on it the mark of the approval of the Lord, God
Almighty. That is my opinion, and I wish you all to be of good
cheer.

"Courage, brother, do not stumble,
Though thy path be dark as night,
There's a star to guide the humble,
Trust in God and .do the right.

[Applause].
Some will love thee,

Some will hate thee,
Some will flatter,

Some will slight,

Cease from man and look above thee,
Trust in God and do the right. ' '

— Banner of Gold, April 30, 1892.

Dr. Talmage has stated that before he visited Dwight, 111., he
had made a careful investigation of the Keeley system, and was
thoroughly satisfied. Six months later, after abundant evidence
of the efficiency of the Keeley cure, Dr. Talmage writes in The
Golden News, October 24th :

THE WORK HAS ONLY BEGUN.

"Gentlemen, I am mightly impressed with this whole Keeley
cure. I believe it has just begun its work in comparison with that
which will follow — which it will yet achieve, and there will not be
a neighborhood in the United States, or in the world that will not
be finally blessed with it." DR. TALMAGE.

We might print many pages from the speeches and writings of
the eloquent doctor, but no additions could make his testimony
more unique and perfect. When Dr. Keeley gave a lecture on the
Keeley cure, December, 1891, at the invitation of the Press Asso-
ciation of Chicago, among the many eminent guests were: The
Rev. Frank M. Bristol and the Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas. They
are briefly reported as follows (Chicago Tribune, December 19,
1891):

INTERESTS BOTH RICH AND POOR.
The Rev. Frank M. Bristol Discusses the Benefits of the Cure.

The Rev. Frank M. Bristol was the next visitor. He said :
" There is not a cottage so humble in all this land that is not
interested, vitally interested, in the subject that brings us together
this evening. To-morrow eyes accustomed to tears will read the
daily papers to find in the utterances of this man of science some
degree of hope. Abraham Lincoln once said, "All rational men
are agreed that intemperance is the greatest evil that inflicts
humanity." Upon that we are all agreed, and a remedy for it is
the only question. I have stated before that an ounce of cure is
worth a pound of prevention at a certain stage. We want some-
thing practical. We want a cure. I believe in theories, but they
are like eggs — good things if they hatch before spoiling. There
are many temperance theories spoiling from age. Our con-
sciences have been trying to hatch something from nothing. It
is to be expected this discovery should be met with opposition.
A sermon was preached against it, and I venture that minister,
were he alive to-night, would regret his utterance. Some of the
preachers of Chicago will yet live to take back some of the
sermons they have been preaching against the Keeley cure."

Getting Down to Practical Sense.

The Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas Thinks the World Is Improving.

The Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas followed Dr. Bristol. He said:
" When Brother Bristol and I were young we used to hear a
great deal about the world being lost. Now we are getting down
to practical sense in talking about the world being sick, being

diseased, and seeking out a remedy, the best cure, and we are on
much nearer and more practical grounds.

Man is built upon the principle of an engine. He must stop
at stations for food and drink, and then moves on to the next
station, where he must again eat and drink. Life is sustained by
some forms of eating. I suppose the medical men present will
agree with me that life is brought into existence by stimulation
and is sustained by food. It is a law of nature. But man with
chemistry in his hands has changed nature — has changed the
world. Man has taken it to pieces and recombined it. Man
has gone through all the different kinds of fruit and grain and by
chemistry has produced alcohol. This is the bottom of the tem-
perance question. This is an age in which we have produced
amazing forces. Nature has gone further in some forms of stimu-
lation. There is the tea plant, the coffee berry, and the weed of
tobacco. All these, are in some sense, termed stimulants, and it
is a singular fact that most people like them. Why? I suppose
it is because in some way they quicken the action of the system ;
that they in some way assist the great reserve powers to go long
distances and carry greater loads. It lifts them up into physical
ecstacy and the next day take a little more. This is the rising
and falling of the tide which finally breaks every vow and every
resolution and sweeps on to the sea. They are not strong swim-
mers and the perilous waves ultimately engulf them.

Dr. Keeley, proposes to fight chemistry by chemistry he pro-
poses to antidote one poison with another. It looks as if he had
accomplished it and if so, let us say, "Praise the Lord, "and when
we say this we do not mean to undervalue the other remedies.

It is better never to drink, but if we become drunkards let us
bring in our chemistry, the chemistry of this cure. That is all the
argument there ever was for all the good there may be in religion.
Let me say to you in this age of chemistry we have called upon
the physical forces of heaven and earth, electricity, dynamite, and
gunpowder, and we must handle them safely. It is more difficult
to live. now than a hundred years ago because we have brought
these greater forces to bear upon our daily life. Dr. Keeley has
been studying, praying for years; has been working for something
to cure this terrible disease of intemperance. The medical profes-
sion is a progressive profession and instead of antagonizing him,
while they would like to know the remedy, they are pleased at the
discovery of the cause."

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It Has Proven Itself.

The fact that Dr. Keeley can remove the appetite for strong
drink at once and forever from the drunkard is to-day attested by
tens of thousands of men and women. It is no longer a theory
nor to be questioned. It has proven itself.

REV. P. E. HOLP.

A Welcome Endorsement.

Andrew Wilson, F. B. S. E., Etc., the Editor of "Health," Invites
Dr. Edmund's Opinion.

From the issue of Health (London), for 23rd September Dr. Keeley's admirers will be
gratified to read the following comments by the editor in introducing a letter
from Dr. Edmunds upon the cure of inebriety by Dr. Keeley's methods and
medicines.

"I have taken up the dual position that Dr. Keeley, of "In-
ebriety Cure " fame, has a perfect right to use his knowledge for
his own personal profit, and that on account of the secrecy he
thinks it right to maintain in the matter of his remedies, he can-
not expect medical men to accord him their support. Medical
use and wont are entirely against the employment of " secret "
remedies ; hence it is useless for Dr. Keeley to invite medical co-
operation so long as he refuses to make known the exact rationale
of his treatment. This much is admitted on both sides, I believe,
Dr . Keeley is within his rights in keeping to himself the details
of his method, and medical men are within theirs in refusing re-
cognition to his views and opinions.

This is the " professional " view of things. The scientific view
(to which personally I cling) is, that for the satisfactory investiga-
tion of any results we must have a knowledge of data and causes.
It is with Dr. Keeley's cure for inebriety as with, say, astronomy,
physics or biology at large. I may see certain results and recog-
nize them as true and valid ; but, scientifically I want to know
how these results are produced. I cannot be said to know enough
to warrant fair and just conclusions on my part until I know the
means which are used to produce the results in question. This
also is fair reasoning, I think, to which Dr. Keeley, as a trained
medical man will not object."

Dr. James Edmunds, one of the founders of the London Tem-
perance Hospital, however, has publicly queried the application of
the rules set by the Royal College of Physicians, and has so far
been true to his faith in Dr. Keeley's cures (as witnessed by him-

self), that he has placed the fact on record of his belief in the effi-
cacy of this method of curing inebriety. I have lately had the
pleasure of a long interview with Dr. Edmunds, and have shown
the rocords of cases (professionally investigated by and known to
him), in which the alcohol habit has apparently been cured by
the Keeley system, as now practiced in London. Dr. Edmunds
knows more than I do, of course, about Dr. Keeley 's cure (in fact,
I know nothing at all regarding the composition of the remedies),
but I think I am within the mark in saying that Dr. Edmunds
himself would not venture to say he is acquainted with the nature
of the drugs used in the course of the cure. Be that as it may,
Dr-. Edmunds is content to assert that he has seen results in the
cure of alcoholism and of the morphine habit, such as have hitherto
been effected by no other system ; and although, as I have said,
this is (scientifically) an unsatisfactory declaration, Dr. Edmunds
pins his faith firmly by the results he has witnessed.

1 have asked Dr. Edmunds to give some account of what he
knows regarding the Keeley cure, and he has kindly consented to
do so. He has supplied me with the following details, which, if
only on the principle of keeping my readers abreast of the
latest doings of medicine, will be perused with interest. For my
my own part, I await with something of scientific impatience a
knowledge of the exact means used in the Keeley system. I may
never succeed in getting this information, it is true, but what Dr.
Edmunds has to say should impress his fellow physicians deeply,
as the record of an honest and fair-minded man, who has set aside
professional custom in so far as it would cause him to refuse to in-
vestigate any cure the rationale of which may be unknown. It
might cause somewhat of a reform in medical matters did some of
Dr. Edmunds' colleagues follow his example. The following is
Dr. Edmunds' letter:

"I. I have been asked by Dr. Andrew Wilson to say a few
words on the Keeley Treatment of Inebriety, and I cheerfull re-
spond to his invitation.

" My excuse for venturing to speak on this subject is that I
have been an active medical worker in temperance for thirty
years ; that for eighteen and a half years I have worked as senior
physician at the London Temperance Hospital, and that I have
more cases of inebriety referred to me professionally than any
other physician in London.

" 3. On this subject I have never written until I wrote in The
Lancet of July 30, (page 285), and then I wrote because I felt
that a rude and untruthful attack had been made upon an Amer-
can physician. The reason why, with all this experience, I have
never written anything on this terrible subject is simply that I

had nothing to say except to repeat that " the cure of drunken-
ness is to leave off drinking." The real question is, how to make
an inebriate leave off drinking? This we have hitherto failed to
accomplish, when once the drink-crave is firmly established. These
cases so sickened me that I was tired of advising about them ;
and the only thing the inebriate asylum doctors have done is to
persistently clamor for greater and readier powers, to incarcerate
their inebriate patients.

" 4. Of late it has been forced upon my attention that inebri-
ates from all parts of the world were making pilgrimages to
D wight, Illinois, U. S. A., and that morphia users and alcohol
drinkers, with whom no method had ever been useful, were com-
ing back cured. It became my duty to my patients to investi-
gate the facts which came before me, and those investigations con-
vinced me that there was really 'something' in the Keeley
treatment. I can produce in London now such cases for profes-
sional inspection, and I have advised inebriate patients to go to
the Keely Institute, which is now available in London at 5 Port-
land Place. I cannot, of course, give names, unless by explicit
permission on the part of patients, but I am allowed by Lord
Graves to give his experience. Lord Graves, in April last, was
taking by hypodermic injection, twenty-five grains of morphia
every day — a quantity which would kill any ten ordinary people.
He could not live without this perpetual drugging, and with it his
life was a burden to him. He had been a slave to the morphia
habit for many years, and no treatment had ever helped him to
shake it off. He went to Dwight, and in thirty-five days (being a
very bad case) he was cured of the morphia habit. From the
commencement of the Keeley treatment he never took more than
twelve and a half grains in all of morphia. On returning to
London he came to see me, and he has been well ever since, and
is now a new man. Last evening (September i8th), I saw him
again, and had a long conversation with him. He still tells me
that he has entirely lost his morphia crave. Lord Graves allows
me to say that he will be glad to see anyone upon this subject, if
they will call upon him or write to him, at 34 Duke street, St.
James.

"5. Other cases, equally remarkable, of the cure, both of
inebriety and of the morphia-crave, are within my personal
knowledge. Btnoroft Library .

"6. Dr. Keeley, instead of locking up these unfortunate inebri-
ates for long periods, 'cures the drink crave' by remedies which
act as arsenic or quinine acts in curing an ague. This is a new
line of thought. It is one which has helped me immensely in my
own work on these cases ; while careful watching and study of Dr.

Keeley's results have convinced me that Dr. Keeley knows more
about handling morphia men and alcohol drinkers than all the rest
of the profession put together.

"/. There is now to be seen at Dwight, the most wonderful
clinic in the world. Twelve hundred inebriates, on an average,
are congregating at that agricultural village to march through the
hall of the Keeley Institute four times a day, for the inoculations
which are administered by Dr. Keeley's assistant physicians.
These patients stay from three to four, or, sometimes, as with
Lord Graves, five weeks. Four times a day these patients form
into four lines — first week men, second week men, third week
men, fourth week men — and march past the four inoculating
physicians at the rate of six a minute. Among these men are
physicians, lawyers, clergymen, journalists, and men generally who
do the brain wOrk of the world. The great bulk of these men,
like Lord Graves go home cured, and send all their inebriate
friends off to Dwight.

These facts are not even disputed by anyone who is worth
listening to, and there is no need for me to cite evidence in their
proof. Some 120,000 such inebriates, including 2,000 inebriate
physicians, have journeyed to the Keeley Institutes in America,
and have submitted themselves to this treatment. Great news-
papers, like the Chicago Tribune, knowing of the work done in
its own district, vouch in strenuous leaders for the good which is
being done by this treatment." " JAMES EDMUNDS,

«M. D., M. R., C. P. Lond."

Neal Dow and Dr. Keeley. N

An Interview About the Cure With the Famous Old Maine Prohibitionist.

"I called upon Gen. Neal Dow at his residence, in Portland,
Maine, on Tuesday morning last, bearing a letter of introduction
from his daughter, Mrs. Emma Dow Gould. The General was
seated in his library reading the newspaper as I was ushered in.
There was something more than the ordinary welcome accorded
to an ordinary reporter in the manner in which this hero of Pro-
hibition battles, and ex-Governor of the State of Maine, arose
and took me warmly by the hand. His handsome face glowed
with genuine pleasure as he read his daughter's letter telling him
that I wanted to talk with him about Dr. Keeley and the great
Keeley cure.

A GRAND OLD MAN.

It was almost impossible to imagine that that happy, genial
face represented eighty -eight years. The General, however,

assured me that such was the fact. Even when he looked very
serious, which was the case when speaking of the evils of the
liquor traffic, he appeared twenty years younger than he really is.
Surely God blesses this grand old man.

BELIEVES IN KEELEY.

" Do you believe in the Keeley treatment for inebriety,
General?" I asked.

" Most assuredly I do. I have seen instances which have
thoroughly convinced me of its efficaciousness." (Here he pro-
ceeded to relate the condition of several men who were well
known, not alone to him, but who were prominent characters,
and prominent drunkards, too, in Portland and other places, but
who had been surely saved from a miserable existence by the
Keeley cure).

HE TALKS OF THE KEELEY CURE.

" Have you ever mentioned the Keeley cure in your public
addresses? "

" Yes, indeed, I have. I have felt impelled by what I have
seen to speak in favor of Dr. Keeley and his remedies whenever
I had the opportunity, either in public or private. I am not at
all influenced against the treatment by reading of the antagonism
of some medical men. Medical men are banded together to
support each other. They establish certain rules for their pro-
fessional behavior, and call it a " Code of Ethics," but, in reality,
it is a sort of " Trades Union," the practical object being to keep
up prices and keep out innovations which may in any way effect
their pockets or prestige. This same medical fraternity, in days
gone by, discarded the theories of Jenner and other great dis-
coverers. Dr. Keeley is passing through a similar experience.
He is sure to triumph, however, in the end. Truth is on his
side. The clouds of ignorance, doubt, envy, hatred and malice
will soon be dispelled by the touch of science."

The interview with the distinguished leader of the Prohibition
Party is reported in full in Keeley 's Current Literature, October,
1892. Copies may be had upon application to the Keeley Inst
tute, Carson City, Nev.

Casting Out the Devil.

John V. Farwell Explains in What the World is Indebted to Dr. K.eley.

John V. Farwell, the great Chicago dry goods merchant was an
interested spectator at the convention of the Keeley Leagu.
throughout, and is a man of broad ideas and believes in practical

things. We make the following brief extracts from his eminently
practical speech .

" It must be very interesting to you to look into each other's
face, and have these recollections and realize that to-night you are
not slaves, but free men ; free by the grace of God through His
providence in giving you Dr. Keeley and his wonderful cure.
(Great applause.)

" I remember several years ago seeing in the newspapers some-
thing about the Keeley Cure, in favor and against, and as I re-
member how 'chincona' was introduced to the public through
the newspapers a few years previously, I said to myself, * Oh,
well, this is another humbug — a fellow blowing his own horn for
profit and pay.' Soon after this I went to London and met Dr.
Keeley for the first time, and I found that the newspapers there
and the Knights of Medicine were opposed to Dr. Keeley. And
I said to myself, I guess if he is worthy of the notice of the med-
ical journals and of the great medical men of London, if they
oppose him, he is worthy of somebody's notice and I think I will
make some inquiries and see whether he is a humbugger or not.
And so my inquiries were instituted in London, and on returning
to Chicago, some years ago, because it is some years ago that this
occurred, I made some inquiry. But, as I said before, I was pre-
judiced against it, coming to me as it did through the newspapers.

" But I see in your faces to-night a different story. I have
found in all the inquiries I have made in London and here and
New York that all my impressions have been wiped out. (Ap-
plause.)

" Yes, friends and fellow citizens, another name has been added
to the list of public benefactors, and that name is Dr. Leslie E
Keeley. (Great applause.) In due time he will be cannonized
for having cast out the largest devil that ever afflicted Christen-
dom. (Applause and cheers.) I am glad the day has come when
men like Francis Murphy preached the doctrine of leaving out
hard names after a man had got the appetite fixed on him, and
treat him kindly, that it has come to be understood as a disease,
and there is no other name for the big devil." — Current Keeley
Literature, October, 1892.

Francis Murphy and Dr. Keeley.

"I Prayed For This Discovery," Said Francis Mnrphy.

The Keeley League Meets at Pittsburg— Ras Wilson and Francis Murphy— The Grand
Opera House Crowded— A Grand Reception— Would Advocate the Keeley Cure.
They Are Crying "Crucify" Him— The Grace of God and Science of Keeley.
"Here Is a Keeley Man"— One of the Brightest Omens— A Word From John J.
Flinn— The Grandest Temperance Oration— From Ras Wilson— Pledges of
Support — A Keeley Day — Hospitable Major Moore.

The meeting of the Executive Board of the Keeley League, in
Pittsburg, has been one of the greatest events in the history of the
movement. It so happened that Francis Murphy, who had been
absent from Pittsburg for two years, returned to that city last
week. It was in Pittsburg, sixteen years ago, that Francis Murphy
made his first appearance as a temperance lecturer. It was in
Pittsburg that he won his spurs as a great temperance evangelist.
He was discovered to be a sincere and able advocate of temper-
ance by Ras Wilson, of the Commercial Gazette, whose name is
dear to every Keeleyite on this continent. Ras Wilson reported
the first meeting presided over by Francis Murphy, and gave him
the first favorable report he had ever received from a newspaper.
Ras Wilson believed in him from the start, and stayed with him
from that time on. He saw the name and fame of Murphy grow
until the Murphy movement became a household word throughout
America and in many of the countries of Europe. Murphy,
through all the years that have followed, has grown upon the
people of Pittsburg until he has become, in the true sense, a
favorite son of that busy and prosperous center of industry.
Upon his return, after an absence of two years, the people of
Pittsburg decided to give him an ovation at the Grand Opera
House, one of the largest theaters in the country. The Murphy
meeting was announced for Sunday evening, October 16. The
meeting of the Executive Board of the Keeley League was
announced for Monday evening, October 17. One of the first
questions put to Mr. Murphy by Ras Wilson, after the former's
return to Pittsburg, was, "What do you think of Keeley?"
Murphy's reply was, "Keeley, God bless him; I am with him."
He then informed Mr. Wilson that he would put himself on record
at the Opera House meeting as a friend of the Keeley cause.
This information reached Mr. John M. Kelly, who immediately
sent telegrams to members of the Executive Committee, announcing
the fact that Murphy would say a word for Keeley on Sunday
evening, and asked them to be present. Mr. John J. Flinn,
Chairman of the Executive Committee, on receipt of the telegram

immediately set out for Pittsburg. So did Captain Mattox, of
Cleveland. Both of these gentlemen arrived in time to attend the
meeting. Other members of the committee, with the exception
of Hon. Walter Young, of Missouri, arrived on Monday evening,
too late for the Murphy meeting.

THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE CROWDED.

Before seven o'clock on Sunday night the immense auditorium
of the Grand Opera House was crowded to overflowing, and the
daily papers of Pittsburg agreed in estimating that fully 2,000
persons were unable to obtain admission. There were between
3,000 and 3,500 persons in the opera house when the meeting
opened.

The opening address was made by Capt. Robert Hunter, one
of Murphy's pledge-signers, and now a thorough friend of the
Keeley movement. He made an eloquent speech, reviewing the
career of Francis Murphy from the time he had entered upon the
temperance work, at Pittsburg, an almost unknown man. The
audience was enthusiastic , and at every reference to Murphy
broke out in the heartiest applause.

A GRAND RECEPTION.

When Francis Murphy stepped forward, the man was so over-
come by the magnificent reception he received, that it was some
minutes before he could command his voice. He stood before
the audience with tearful eyes and trembling lips, incapable of
giving utterance to a syllable. The audience remained in perfect
silence. At length the white-haired apostle of temperance got
control of his feelings, and for a few minutes there poured out
from his heart words of love and gratitude for the kindness which
has always been shown him by the people of Pittsburg. Before
he could go on with his talk some gospel hymns were sung, and
after his peculiar manner of conducting a meeting, he called from
the stage a number of those who had taken the Murphy pledge,
and several gentlemen bore testimony to the fact that they had
been induced to lead sober lives by Francis Murphy. Many of
these have gone on from five to fifteen years. All of them,
without an exception admitted, that it was still a fight — that the
battle was not yet won.

WOULD ADVOCATE THE KEELEY CURE.

Francis Murphy then stepped forward and for the first time
mentioned the name of Keeley. The name was received with
applause and cheering. The orator was unable to go on for
several minutes. He then, in unmistakable terms, proclaimed to

the audience that he was a believer in the great physician at
Dwight, and that henceforth, wherever he might be, he would
advocate the Keeley cure as the most practicable and the surest
means known by men for the reformation of the drunkard. This
announcement was also followed by an outburst of applause last-
ing some moments. Francis Murphy then went briefly over the
history of the Keeley movement.

THEY ARE CRYING "CRUCIFY" HIM.

He spoke of the sneers which came from the medical profes-
sion; of the obstacles Dr. Keeley had to contend with from relig-
ious people; of the difficulties which beset every man who gave
birth to a new idea. "Jesus Christ," said Mr. Murphy, "was
sneered at as Keeley was sneered at. He found it necessary in
order to heal men to give them medicine, and his name has come
down to us as a physician — the greatest physician that ever
lived. The Scribes and Pharisees denounced him as a fraud, as
they are denouncing the great doctor at Dwight, to-day. It has
always been so in this world. It is all a man's life is worth, all a
man's character is worth, to be the father of a new discovery in
science, or a new idea in religion. They are crying 'crucify' him
when we speak of Keeley to-day, as they cried crucify Him,
when Christ's name was heard eighteen centuries ago." 4<Oh"
said Murphy, "how many times have I prayed for this discovery;
how many thousands might I have saved had this man's medi-
cine been at my hand; how many thousands of homes might I
have made happy, had I known how to cure as Keeley cures."

GRACE OF GOD AND SCIENCE OF KEELEY.
It will be impossible to describe the sensation created through-
out the vast audience by these words. Every mention of Keeley's
name was followed with applause, and when Francis Murphy
declared finally that henceforth, having on his side the grace of
God and the science of Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, the temperance
movement would assume a magnitude such as it has never
reached before, he was compelled to stop because of the con-
tinued applause which greeted the declaration.

He is no Doubter.

A New York Medical Man Who Sees the Facts as They Are.

"Dr. Ira C. Brown, the well-^nown West Side physician, is a
enthusiast on the Keeley cure. He has used it in his practic
and speaking of the manner in which it is spreading all over 1

country, remarked to me the other day, that there were 200,000
people in the United States who have been cured of all taste of
liquor by the treatment. "I highly approve of the suggestion
made by the Times, that every man or woman sentenced to prison
for drunkenness, should be compelled to take the bi-chloride of
gold. It does not depend on the will power of the patient, and
will cure the "sot" of his taste for rum whether he likes it or not.
Of the 100,000 cases successfully treated, 70,000 are from the
parent institute at Dwight, and the remaining 30,000 from branch
institutes throughout the country. The success obtained officially
has been recognized by the introduction of the bi-chloride of gold
cure into the soldiers' home, atQuincy, Illinois, and a number of
other soldiers' homes throughout the United States." — Buffalo
N. F,, Times.

Governor Francis' Testimony.

Governor Francis, of Missouri, wrote the following letter which
explains itself:

CITY OF JEFFERSON, July 16.

Mr. Fntz Nisbet, Secretary and Treasurer St. Louis Bi-Chloride of Gold Club, St.
Louis, Mo.

DEAR SIR: "Your circular letter, dated July 5, was received on the I4th
inst. I consider the objects of your organization commendable and worthy
of encouragement and material aid. Within the circle of my acquaintance
are several men, and at least one woman, who through the aid of bi-chloride
of gold cure, have been enabled to conquer appetities which seemed incur-
able. They are now useful members of society, and if others can be reclaimed
through the instrumentality of your club, as I have no doubt will be done, a
great blessing will be conferred upon those who enjoy the benefit of your aid.
We are our brother's keeper. I enclose my check for $10 and regret that the
frequent calls made upon me will not admit of my contributing a larger sum."

Respectfully,

DAVID R. FRANCIS.

Medicine and Medical attendance for three weeks,
One Hundred and Five Dollars, payable in advance.
Twenty-five Dollars per week will be charged thereafter
for persons requiring more than a three weeks' course.

FORGET that the KEELEY TREATMENT has stood
the test of more than thirteen years. It has been given to
more than two hunored th-qfasand persons, and of this num-
ber not more than five pec cent, have relapsed into their former
habits. The treatment is harmless and no person was ever injured
mentally or physically by it, and the patient is entirely free fro m
all physical restraint while at the Keeley Institute. Consider these
facts if you are in need of treatment.

Yours truly,

THE KEELEY INSTITUTE OF NEVADA.
CAKISOX crrv. ^

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